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by alanh 8y ago
Yes — a different and more elaborate scenario, really. I suppose I was just thinking of ways machines embedded in your brain can go wrong.
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by alanh 8y ago
The nightmare scenario version of this is Michael Chrichton’s The Terminal Man (1972)
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by alanh 8y ago
I’m not sure why you are being downvoted. your prediction is hardly guaranteed but not entirely absurd either. it’s nice to have a guaranteed market
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by alanh 8y ago
(not downvoting you, but your comment makes no sense at all to me)
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by alanh 8y ago
notes: 1) I didn’t mean to submit this URL, really; I thought I’d be redirected to the existing submission. That can be found here (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10387071 2) Ironically, the lost-and-resurrecte
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Raiders of the Lost Web (2015)(theatlantic.com)
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by alanh 8y ago
interesting. i hadn't seen this although I implemented something effectively the same, except that all keys (which could be any number ≥ 2) be combined to reveal the secret (or any information about it).
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by alanh 8y ago
One in 10k? Nonsense. > Your odds of dying in a car crash, over the span of your entire life, are somewhere in between 1 and 50 and 1 and 100. — http://www.asktheodds.com/death/car-crash-odds/ > Chance of
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by alanh 8y ago
It makes my head hurt a little bit to think that everything after the slash in the Mime type of open web standard "text/javascript" is a trademark Oracle is actually trying to enforce
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by alanh 8y ago
what a treat. thanks for sharing this video.
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by alanh 9y ago
If the denominator of that 12% number includes adult websites, which presumably know you don’t want to share to facebook, then this number may mean something a little different than many will assume it does
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by alanh 9y ago
> if there is a war today Wow, we really are insulated from our military today, aren’t we? Yes, the US government is still at war in Afghanistan and with ISIS.
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by alanh 9y ago
They don’t have a reciprocal export function, however. :(
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by alanh 9y ago
To be fair, this is exactly what happened, since CommonMark did not cause all Markdown users and implementors to converge.
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by alanh 9y ago
I’m not sure that GitHub uses CommonMark! Generally GitHub's format is referred to as GFM (GitHub-Flavored Markdown) and it has notable differences including preserving newlines. Notably, GitHubbers and StackOverflow representatives jo
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by alanh 9y ago
Standard reminder that Markdown, while pleasant to author in, is perhaps one of the least standard formats ever (every implementation does things their own way; see Babelmark 2) and not a great archive format, largely as a result. (Markdown
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by alanh 9y ago
I expected the other side of this link to be a thinkpiece that maybe having one company host and track all of our blog reading activity isn't smart in a post-Cambridge Analytica world (or even a post-Snowden world, but whatever). It’s
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by alanh 9y ago
Hey, that’s a really bad idea, jiveturkey. Facebook flags and disables accounts with zero friends and zero activity outside of apps. Sometimes they allow you to restore the account by uploading a picture of yourself and waiting for verifica
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by alanh 9y ago
’orrifying.
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by alanh 9y ago
Your passenger's side comment didn’t make sense to me until I read the Forbes article linked above: > Herzberg is said to have abruptly walked from a center median into a lane with traffic So that explains that. However, contrary
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by alanh 9y ago
Eh, maybe… but I am reminded of the observation that if a single tweak could significantly enhance mental abilities, evolution would have probably given it to us already. I think Eliezer Yudkowsky has a longish piece to this effect (please
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by alanh 9y ago
It’s a wonderful podcast. +1 to the recommendation of that episode.
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by alanh 9y ago
Rectangle vs circle isn't the point of this thread, as I understand it. It’s that the calculated width of text determines the width of a float when the float has no specified width. Here is a fiddle demonstrating what I understood peop
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by alanh 9y ago
I wonder if you got the animated red dot GIF from bellsnwhistles.com. I sure used their gifs on my first website (sadly lost to time, courtesy of angelfire deleting unpopular pages + a particularly nasty Windows bug that deleted my local co
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by alanh 9y ago
I have been a 1Password user since ~2010 and never once has it ever made an input field or login form unusable for me. (I used LastPass briefly before, but vastly preferred 1Password's native apps and more secure architecture, which wa
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by alanh 9y ago
So… I of course had no specific idea about this, but in 2014(?) I declined recruiting pursuits from Grammarly after realizing that their developers were almost entirely managed from another hemisphere. It sounded like a very top-down, low-c
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by alanh 9y ago
> between Sept. 28, 2016 and Jan. 22, 2017 So, a full year ago? Not a typo, but an emergency from 374 days ago?
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by alanh 9y ago
Same here. I live in San Francisco and to the best of my knowledge, Pu-erh seems to be called just that. “Red tea” is not often said, but I would assume it meant rooibos. (BTW — if you haven't tried rooibos, please do. It is delicious.
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by alanh 9y ago
> not at all compelling to anyone who actually understands anything about security and privacy. could you possibly phrase this with any more condescension, myopia, or overgeneralization?
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by alanh 9y ago
Those with no knowledge of the law constantly spouting off as if they do is easily one of the worst features of HN.

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